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Viele Koautoren verderben die Anerkennung

I predict that in those fields where multiple authorship endangers the author credit system we shall soon see institutionally initiated restriction on the number of authors. Paradoxically, this is likely to be endorsed by all parties as preferable to cinema-style specification of who actually did what. Most will prefer full credit for a few papers to little or no credit for many [...]

Mott Greene: The demise of the lone author

In: Nature 450, 1165 (20 December 2007) | doi:10.1038/4501165a

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7173/full/4501165a.html